Experts to present ‘midyear review’ of Mexico’s president at Rice’s Baker Institute

HOUSTON – (May 13, 2019) – A group of academic and industry experts will gather at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy May 21 to examine new Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s steps to reduce crime, improve public safety and reform the administration of justice in his country since he took office in December. They will also assess the long-term impact of his administration’s policies on these critical problems, which event organizers say have stifled Mexico’s economic and social development.

Who: Keynote speaker Bill Udell, CEO of Control Risks’ Americas region, and panelists Richard Kilroy, nonresident scholar at the Mexico Center and associate professor of politics at Coastal Carolina University; Daniel Linsker, senior partner at Control Risks in Mexico City; Isidro Morales, nonresident scholar at the Mexico Center and professor at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education in Mexico; and Tony Payan, the Françoise and Edward Djerejian Fellow for Mexico Studies at the Baker Institute and director of the Mexico Center.

Nicolas Shumway, senior program advisor at the Mexico Center and the Frances Moody Newman Chair in Humanities, will serve as moderator of the panel.

Founded in 1993, Rice University’s Baker Institute ranks among the top three university-affiliated think tanks in the world. As a premier nonpartisan think tank, the institute conducts research on domestic and foreign policy issues with the goal of bridging the gap between the theory and practice of public policy. The institute’s strong track record of achievement reflects the work of its endowed fellows, Rice University faculty scholars and staff, coupled with its outreach to the Rice student body through fellow-taught classes — including a public policy course — and student leadership and internship programs. Learn more about the institute at www.bakerinstitute.org or on the institute’s blog, http://blogs.chron.com/bakerblog.